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Clark Atlanta University Panther
November 25, 1991
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Maddox, 44, Dies
By Kesha Moorefield.
Copy Editor
Jacque Maddox, 44, on
leave as the first General
Manager of CAU Television,
passed of apparent heart failure
on November 16 in Washington,
D.C..
She was employed as a
special assistant to the chief of
staff of the Peace Corps. Her
main duties consisted of
planning and organizing the
30th anniversary celebration of
the Peace Corps and the reunion
of its 130,000 former volunteers.
During a memorial
service held November 20 at
Central United Methodist
Church, friends and former co
workers , remembered how she
affected their lives. Chief of
Police Eldrin Bell reflected on
how she would come to a
person's aid to protect their well
being. Some students in the
department read poems they
had written during the
ceremony.
Maddox was one of the
first Black women to embark
upon a career as an
anchorperson in the South. She
started out in Nashville during
the 70's at WLAC radio. Later,
she was employed as a television
broadcaster for WSIX/Channel 8
in the city,. The reporter
relocated to Atlanta to work as a
televison personaltiy and
general assignment reporter for
WAGA/Channel 5 in 1974. She
was one of 12 people to receive
the William Benton Fellowship
at the University of Chicago in
1987.
She received a bachelor's
degree in speech and mass
communications from Ball
State University in 1970.
Anita Barham, interim
general manager, met Maddox in
1988 when she became host of
'Community Journal'. Later that
year the former anchorperson
was named general manager of
communications for CAU. She
remembered her as being a nice
person who was willing to help
students and offer advice. "She
was aggressive and when she
wanted something done it had to
be done the right way," Barham
said.
The former
anchorperson was also a very
good jazz and classical pianist
according to Barham. "This was
her love but she preferred for
people not to know it because she
believed it interfered with her
other tasks," she added.
Occasionally she could be
coerced into playing a few bars.
Adrian Tibbs, a senior at
CAU, met her when he came to
the institution four years ago. He
remembered her introducing
him to every one on the staff
during his first day of work
study in the department."The
ir pact she made upon my life at
t at point has continued thus
xr," he added. "Like a tour guide,
she would take us on adventures
outside of our protective
world..." Tibbs read during the
ceremony.
During the memorial
service her integrity and
eagerness to face new challenges
were commended. "She really
had the best interest of students
at heart," Patrick Riley, a
Morehouse senior, majoring in
the department said. He recalled
her helping him produce his
first special that aired on the
school's television network.
The funeral was
held November 23 in her
hometown of Richmond,
Indiana. Her family requested
that in lieu of flowers, donations
be made to the Kidney
Foundation under her name.
Pre-Alumni Council Meets
By Dionne Lang mater
Contributing Writer The con f erence was
held for several reasons: 1) to
Representatives from 12 inform students of Pre-
historically Black colleges alumni concerns 2} to develop
and universities vowed this an agenda 3) to establish a
month to carry a message of working relationship between
increasing awareness and the councils and 4) to stress
fundraising back to their the importance of PAC’s role
campuses. in the UNCF.
The Southeastern "The conference was a
Regional Conference of the
United Negro College Fund's
(UNCF) Pre-Alumni Council
was held this month at Clark
Atlanta University. The
November 8-11 workshop
raised issues ranging from
career planing to career
success.
"This years'
attendance was the best ever,”
said, Juan McGruder, co
advisor of CAU's chapter. A
record breaking, 13 of the 17
schools in the region
participated.
The UNCF's Pre-
Alumni Council fPAC) has
traditionally functioned to
inform students of UNCF’s
history, fundraising, and
outreach. The Council also
instills into the students the
importance of commitment
and belief in their alma
big success. I was very pleased
to see so many dedicated
students,” said, Michele
Rhodes, Clark Atlanta
University’s Pre-Alumni
advisor.
The program is a
consortium of 41 private,
historically Black colleges
and universities. It raises
funds and provides services in
support of its member
institutions. The UNCF
institutions provide a quality
education for approximately
50,000 men and women.
The National Alumni
Council’s officials said they
were pleased with CAU’s
preparations for the
conference and that the
University could very well be
the location of the conference
next year.
CAU Raises Thousands
By Angela D. Gravely
Contributing Writer
Clark Atlanta University
raised over $70,000 in
October during its annual
Alumni Phon-A-Thon .
Students, alumni, faculty
and staff contacted former
students throughout the
nation to ask for gifts toward
the CAU Annual Fund.
The fund is a general
monetary resource that
allocates money to
university programs and
projects. These include
education enhancement,
student scholarships
computer and lab facilities.
This years goal is to reach
$200,000 by the end of the
fiscal year, June 30, 1992.
This phon-a-thon was a
joint effort between CAU and
Data Design Consulting
Group, said Gay-linn
Gatewood-Jasho, project
coordinator and systems
administrator of CAU.
A lot of the credit goes to
the consulting firm, said
Gatewood-Jasho. "They were
able to fix some of our
problems immediately." She
also said that alumni and
students who participated
before believed that this was
the best organized phon-a-
thon CAU has every
sponsored.
"CAU is making steps in
the right direction with good
starting blocks. The new
system can capture and
maintain more information
on its constituency," said
Michael Pittman, senior vice
president of Data Design
Consulting Group.
The joint effort between
CAU and the consulting firm
also extends to other alumni
office projects, a new alumni
directory and other campus
systems applications, added
Gatewood-Jasho.
She also said that the
effort of the phon-a-thon
met with some realistic
drawbacks. Participants did
not get a chance to go
through all the alumni files
and more assistance could
have helped. "We're also in a
midst of a recession. Some
people have been out of work
for over a year... and it
definately showed when we
talked with alumni," said
Gatewood-Jasho.
They raised $8,325, $5,210
and $4,675.
Also, competing
undergraduate organizations
included the Honors
Program, raising $2,335;
Best Buddies, with $1,040;
and Delta Sigma Theta
Sorority with $950
This years major
participants included
alumni Betsy Monroe, class
of 1951; Marcia Glenn, class
of 1966; and Maddix Moore,
class of 1978,
